Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a ...

There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name ...

Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006. She joined the newspaper in 1983 and has worked as a reporter, an editor, newsroom administrator and editorial writer. Brown: On Long Island ...